The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-06-17

WEEKLY COURIER.
O. DOANIc. Publisher.
JASPER. lNlHASA
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
A cIoup-u uRsr dit great damage ~
Obcrlin, O., on the sth.
JAMS G. BLAINE and william O'Brien
sailed for Europe on the Sth- They took
two steamerA
ExsLnn gunboats are being used 70 aid
IN evicting tenants on The islands on tho
coast OF Ireland.
THEGovernment Is to institute . coast
patrol to aid local authorities in quaran-
tine regulation.
4 NUMBER OF New York hotels disre-
Rarded the Sunday Liquor law on the 5th,
and tests In court are 70 BE- made IT once
NEWS from the seat Of war In Afghan
istan indicates that the Ameers chances
OF victory are not much more promising
than those OF the revclutionistA
THE annual meeting Of the Actors fund
was held IT New York on the It'll A letter
from President Cleveland was read &C
cepting an honorary membership In the
fund
THR advance Of Russian troops upon
the Afghan frontier has been greatly &C
CELEBRATED within the last few weeks ana
the English authorities in India arc
preparing to meet them.
THR fnal estimate Of victims Of the
burned Paris Opera ComiQue places the
number at 49, including the rem aims Of
forty persons found in the ruins 90 badly
burned Is TO be unacceptable.
A THUNDERSTORM on the eth gro atty
damaged the crops in Southwestern @ Ter
many Several lives were lost BY fresh
cts. The Saar Moselle and other tribu-
taries Of the Rhine rose very rapidly
Rev. GRANVILLE MOODY, the famou ;
Ohio chaplain known a. the s'hghung
parson,r died on the 5th at MI Vernon,
Ia, from injuries received in runaway
accident he was seventy-six years Old
THE Secretary OF the Treasury has an
thorized the employment Of six nurses to
attend the sick in the barrack hospital 81
L. Nd an q
tect the property Of persons removed 70
the ospitaL
Axox6 tho many celebrities present 70
witness the race for the grand prize OF
Paris on the 5th was General Boulanger.
He was loudly applauded BY the crowd
when he made his appearance, and again
upon his departure
THE report Is renewed that General
Sheridan has decided TO recon mend IN
his annual report that Congress make en-
appropriation for the holding Of an annual
National drill BY the militia Of AL the
States in Washington.
JOHN BRowx and Edward Hogan, b.
longing to the Gloucester (Mass) fishing
schooner Richard Lester, were recently
picked up at sea In dory and landed 81
North sydney, n. s.. after having been
adrift six days without food or water
TIE health Of the Crown Pnnce Fred
erick william Of Germany Is rapidly i'm
proving. The foreign growth, which hal
affected his throat, Is much smaller thar
II was prlor TO the operation performed
By DR.. Mackenzie, and does not In AMI
way interfere with his breathing
On. z. A. KSorxER, for thirteen years
editor Of the Sscbot<, At Milwaukee, Wis,
has accepted the position Of editor Of the
German humorous paper Puck, In New
York. for which he has been working -
contributor. DR.. Knotxer IS one Of thu
ablest editors Of the Wisconsin press
TIE Secretary Of the Navy issued orders
on the 7th for the vessels Of the Nortl
Atlantic squadron 70 proceed 70 New
Haven, Conn, for the purpose Of partici
patine IN the ceremonies Incident to tn
dedication Of the soldiers and sailors
monument At that city on the 18th inst
THR court in general term for the Dis
trict OF Columbia decided on the 9th tha
the act under which the Comm ssioner
ordered the closing Of cigar stands, etc
on Sunday was not valid and the ties
cases against @. W. Cochran and u
Standiford were accordingly dismissed
THE Treasury Department has decidet
that importations Of wool can only b
subjected to duty A. secured wool upoi
evidence that Il has been cleaned b.
chemical or mechanical process In tn
absence OF such evidence, no matter how
clean the wool may be, II 10 entitled :
entry - washed.
AT the close OF the week ended the 4 .
the Detroits still held the lead In tn
League base ball championship series
with Boston a good second and Chicag
advanced to fourth In the American A.
sociation the st. Louis Browns remain o.
top, with no other team within gunshot Q
them. They did not lose game durinl
the week.
THE reception TO Editor OBrlen st th
Hoffman Honse, New York. on the nigl
NJ the IN mas n brilliant affair Lsadi b